{"id":850897,"date":"2024-09-02T09:49:41","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T04:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=850897"},"modified":"2024-09-02T09:51:08","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T04:21:08","slug":"naidu-rijiju-sitharaman-fall-victim-to-whatsapp-impersonation-probe-shows-ip-addresses-of-pakistan-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/09\/02\/naidu-rijiju-sitharaman-fall-victim-to-whatsapp-impersonation-probe-shows-ip-addresses-of-pakistan-hong-kong\/","title":{"rendered":"Naidu, Rijiju, Sitharaman fall victim to WhatsApp impersonation, probe shows IP addresses of Pakistan, Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>n high-profile WhatsApp impersonation cases over the last three years targeting former Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu, Union Ministers Nirmala Sitharaman and Kiren Rijiju, and CJI D Y Chandrachud, among others, probe revealed IP addresses of Pakistan, Hong Kong and Nigeria after analysing the WhatsApp accounts involved in these offences.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, the cyber-police station of New Delhi district police lodged an FIR under BNS Section 204 (whoever pretends to hold any particular office as a public servant) and 66 (C) of the IT Act based on a complaint from an inspector of the security wing of Supreme Court Pawan Kumar, who alleged that someone was pretending to be CJI Chandrachud on X and asking for money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>n high-profile WhatsApp impersonation cases over the last three years targeting former Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu, Union Ministers Nirmala Sitharaman and Kiren Rijiju, and CJI D Y Chandrachud, among others, probe revealed IP addresses of Pakistan, Hong Kong and Nigeria after analysing the WhatsApp accounts involved in these offences. Earlier this week, the cyber-police station of New Delhi district police lodged an FIR under BNS Section 204 (whoever pretends to hold any particular office as a public servant) and 66 (C) of the IT Act based on a complaint from an inspector of the security wing of Supreme Court [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-850897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}